[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] New IPv6 Address Block Allocated to RIPE NCC

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On 2004-06-20, at 23.02, Gert Doering wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:38:29PM +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>> I talked this week in Santa Monica to Doug Barton (copied) IANA 
>> General Manager.
> [..]
>> I believe the document being followed for this is RFC2450 
>> (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2450.txt), authored by Bob 
>> Hinden (copied).
>
> Indeed, this might be the root of all evil.  Section 5.1, the "Sub-TLA"
> stage (which boils down to /23s).
>
> The really bad thing about this is twofold:
>
>  - this document should have never been written - the IETF shouldn't
>    try to micro-manage the whole registry system, and the IANA 
> shouldn't
>    micro-manage the individual RIRs.
>
>  - and the fact that ICANN is slavishly following a document that
>    was written in December 1998 and says about itself "the proposed TLA
>    and NLA assignment rules described in this document are intended for
>    the first two years of IPv6 TLA address assignments" without 
> actually
>    *telling* people about the problem, and without getting people to
>    actually *update* these guiding rules, somewhere in the years 
> between
>    2000 and 2004.

Agreed. PErhaps the best way forward is simply to move 2450 to historic.

- - kurtis -

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